Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes
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The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999. Sheriffs found two garbled hand-written notes – apparently written in secret code – in the victim's pockets, and these were handed over to the FBI for further investigation. Attempts by the FBI's Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association failed to decipher the meanings of those two coded notes, which are listed as one of the CRRU's top unsolved cases.[1] On March 29, 2011, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued an appeal for help from the public in obtaining the meaning of the messages. A few days later, they updated their website to note the "outpouring of responses", and established a separate page[2] where the public can offer comments and theories.[3][4]
Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes | |
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Found with body of McCormick in St. Charles County, Missouri | |
Date | June 30, 1999 |
Language(s) | Unknown cipher |
Author(s) | Assumed to be McCormick |
Discovered | June 30, 1999 |